Future Perfect

Who doesn't want a better tomorrow?

But who actually finds it? Why, despite our many shortfalls, can't we stop ourselves from reaching for hope one last time?

This miscellany of short stories tracks that relentless hunger, that irrational urge in the human heart to leap beyond the ever-retreating horizon of possibility. What compels people to keep scrapping and imagining, calculating and betting, on some golden dawn of deliverance despite the actual track records of their ordinary lives?

In Fu...